Holiday Gift Ideas

I have been working night and day to get the official "Holiday Gift Guide" up and running! There are many categories to help you pick that perfect gift (right from your chair).

Check it out at http://www.mynextclick.com/giftideas.html!

More Pictures

The "lost Halloween" photos. Click the picture to see all!

30 Years Old

Yup, 30. I have been 30 since April, but we are headed to Matt Davey's house in a few hours for his suprise 30th birthday party.

(I hope he doesn't read the blog between now and then!)

Below is a little something that I worked on for his present.


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30 Years Old Isn't A Big Deal!

...or is it?

It takes 30 years:

For a car to be defined as a "classic“
For falling snow to become spring water
For 1,560 Mondays to be finally over
For nylon to decompose
For a Green Turtle to reach sexual maturity
For society to embrace a new innovation
For all the water in the Red Sea to be refreshed
For 360 months to pass
For a saguaro cactus to flower and produce fruit
For a single molecule to reach the stratosphere from the surface of earth
For the Whitebark Pine to produce its first cone
For your mortgage to be paid off
For 10,950 days to pass
For a plastic bottle to biodegrade
For an olive tree to reach maturity
To turn $15,000 into a $1,000,000 in the stock market at 15% return
For Saturn to make one complete rotation around the sun
For 262,800 hours to pass
Before a coconut tree bears its first fruit
For a barrel cactus to grow 2 feet
For a forest to recover after a fire
For 15,768,000 seconds to tick off
For concrete to completely cure
For toilet paper to decompose at 13,000 feet
To form one inch of topsoil
For a uranium atom to lose 1/2 of it's radioactivity

And remember: You are not 30, you are $29.95 plus tax.

*all facts courtesy of google. Click here to see the query.

October/Halloween Pics

Paige at the park in the sand box.

Click the picture or the headline to see all pictures.

They said it flurried last night, but we are unable to verify.

Thanks to Scottie, the attic stairs are installed!!!

See you all soon for Thanksgiving.

Paige at Lowes

Paige at Lowes. Kurt Busch will still win!!!!!!!!!

Give me all your taxes!

A man wearing a George W. Bush mask robs a bank near York, PA. Must be a democrat! Story here

How to spot a *really* rich guy.

Click here

ThatsRacin.com | 10/24/2004 | Ten confirmed dead in Hendrick Motorsports team plane crash

ThatsRacin.com | 10/24/2004 | Ten confirmed dead in Hendrick Motorsports team plane crash: "Ten confirmed dead in Hendrick Motorsports team plane crash

By JIM UTTER KYTJA WEIR AND BINYAMIN APPELBAUM

ThatsRacin.com and The Charlotte Observer


A Hendrick Motorsports plane carrying two pilots and eight other passengers crashed into a mountain Sunday afternoon en route to the Subway 500 NASCAR Nextel Cup race in Virginia.
Ten people were confirmed dead, including four relatives of Hendrick Motorsports CEO Rick Hendrick: His son Ricky Hendrick, his brother John Hendrick, and John's twin daughters Jennifer and Kimberly. John, 53, was the president of Hendrick Motorsports. Ricky owned a Busch Series NASCAR team and ran Performance Honda of Pineville, a motorcycle dealership.
Also killed in the crash were five Hendrick Motorsports employees: General Manager Jeff Turner, Randy Dorton, the chief of the company's engine program, engineer Scott Latham and company pilots Dick Tracey and Liz Morrison. The 10th victim was Joe Jackson, an executive with DuPont, which sponsored Jeff Gordon's Hendrick Motorsports car.
The plane had left the Concord Regional Airport, where the company has a hangar, and was headed to the Martinsville, Va., airport for the race where four of the company's teams were competing.
The plane crashed into Bull Mountain, about 10 miles west of the airport, shortly after 12:30 p.m., FAA officials said.
Emergency teams in Patrick County, Va., responded, but the plane appeared to have crashed in a remote area, said Keith Holloway, a National Transportation Safety Board spokesman. Holloway estimated that federal officials wouldn't be able to reach the crash site until Monday morning.
It remains unclear what caused the crash of the Beech 200 King Air plane, he said."

Hendrick Plane Goes Down

A Hendrick Motorsports plane carrying two pilots and eight other passengers crashed into Bull Mountain, about 10 miles west of Martinsville, Va., site of Sunday's Subway 500 NASCAR Nextel Cup race, the FAA confirmed. FAA spokeswoman Arlene Murray said a Beech 200 owned by Hendrick left Concord (N.C.) Regional Airport and crashed about 12:30 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, near Martinsville Speedway. There was no news as yet on injuries or fatalities, Murray said. HMS had four teams competing in Sunday's race with drivers #24-Jeff Gordon, #48-Jimmie Johnson, #5-Terry Labonte and #25-Brian Vickers.(ThatsRacin.com)
AND NBC 6 News TV out of Charlotte, NC is reporting live that John Hendrick, Ricky Hendrick and engine builder Randy Dorton were on the airplane.(10-24-2004)

OBX

A handsome bunch.

Click the picture for all of the photos....

Terror Behind the Walls

Hounted Prison in Philly.

Looking for something to do this October? Check this out.

It was ranked 9th best haunted house in the U.S. this year!!!

Jib Jab is Back at it

This is the brand new Jib Jab animation about our country's political status.

Add a little McGreevy humor - and this is one funny cartoon!

Agent Starling

The birds are really out of control lately! This appears to be a huge flock of Starlings. We had the deck door open and heard what sounded like hundreds of thousands of them. I snapped this picture when something startled them and they took off.

(Get it? Startled them? Never mind)

Is that Chad Little?

Nothing runs like a Deere!



No, it's me on my new ride!!!! A two plus hour event has been cut in 1/2. God bless the ride-on.

Autumn

There are a few sites I make sure to check out every day. This is a shot from http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/

Goofy Nonsense

How do you catch a unique rabbit?----- Unique up on it!
What do fish say when they swim into a concrete wall?-----DAM!!!
What do Eskimos get when they've sat on the ice too long?-----Polaroids.
What do you call cheese that isn't yours?-----Nacho Cheese!

Good, clean fun. Laugh.



No, I said LAUGH.

Is John Kerry a Flip Flopper?

Check out this interesting piece that discusses this further.

Knock, Knock!!! Who's There?

It's 6:30AM, and as I approach the front door I see red lights whirling around in the soaking rain. Hmmm, I'm curious now. (and a bit concerned)

"Forks Township Fire Department, sir" he proudly blurts out.

As I scan over the faces of the firemen and women (there were 4 of them), I saw this scene.

Hello!

"Sir?", he says "is your basement flooding?"

"Just a little" I respond.

"Do you have a sump pump?"

I am concerned with that question, especially because the answer is "No."

"My wife and I..." I begin to explain "...have been down there moving valuables away from the rising water."

A little dejected, he says "OK sir, if you need us go ahead and call 9-1-1, we will come back and help."

More scared then when they arrived, I thanked them very much and scanned the corner for just how much water there was out there.

As they walked away, one of the younger female fire workers said "Have a nice day!"

Hmmm. Thanks.

The water rose for another hour or so and finally stopped. I promptly left for Lowes to purchase my first 12 gallon Shop Vac.

We are fine, all is OK. The basement got about 1-2 inches in only a few places and all of our valuables were saved. Even a few I wouldn't mind losing.

All pictures here.

Maine Vacation

Morsels from Maine.

This photo was taken from our tandem kayak at Valley Cove. It was our 1/2 way resting point while Becky and I toured Somes Sound together.

Seven days of fresh fruit breakfasts, crab lunches and lobster dinners. Envy us, it's cool.

All pictures are here.

Who comes up with these things? They really DO look like eachother.(thanks Deb for sending this my way)